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Last weekend was the 2013 Garden BioBlitz, an online Twitter-originated collaboration to observe, identify and record garden wildlife. There is a special #gbb13 hashtag on Twitter, and a series of iSpot pages specially to put experts on hand to help

-ties, but only in discrete burgundy or navy blue, with extremely subtle spot patterns. I am rather nosy and have a tendency to stare. Oh, and I like insects. So when the cry is uttered from the end of the garden: “Weird red bug”, there is only one response, I

seed are a regular hedge adornment in my garden. I even balance an old baking tray up there and keep it filled with water for the birds. It’s guaranteed cat free, and also, it works well because I can also see the birds more easily from the house.But it

centenary this week. At the State of Nature launch in the Natural History Museum on Wednesday, I couldn’t help but think of the show gardens just a short walk away, and the wildlife that might have been at the site when the show started in 1913.I can

, for example, has glorious white trumpet flowers (it is related to the morning glory) and willowherb is very pretty. But, you would never want either in your garden if you had a choice. They have no idea of restraint or good manners, and rapidly regenerate